MEDIAN AGE AND PERCENT OF POPULATION UNDER 18 AND OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE BY COUNTY
Nebraska - Selected Years
								1970		1980		1990		2000		2004*
	Median Age							Under 18	65 Years	Under 18	65 Years	Under 18	65 Years	Under 18	65 Years	Under 18	65 Years
Counties	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2004	Years of Age	and Older	Years of Age	and Older	Years of Age	and Older	Years of Age	and Older	Years of Age	and Older
Adams	32.7	34.0	31.1	30.9	34.2	36.5	37.5	30.6%	15.2%	25.5%	15.6%	24.9%	16.7%	24.4%	15.9%	23.0%	15.4%
Antelope	30.2	33.6	35.1	33.1	35.5	40.6	43.3	34.3%	17.7%	29.8%	18.3%	30.6%	19.5%	27.5%	19.9%	23.2%	20.0%
Arthur	26.0	27.9	30.1	37.4	38.2	40.3	42.9	36.3%	9.1%	26.5%	14.8%	25.8%	18.4%	23.9%	16.4%	21.9%	20.4%
Banner	26.4	25.6	30.5	33.4	36.3	39.9	42.9	36.8%	8.6%	29.3%	11.0%	29.7%	15.0%	28.8%	16.0%	22.8%	16.4%
Blaine	27.8	31.1	35.0	32.4	37.0	39.8	47.9	32.3%	17.2%	31.1%	16.1%	27.9%	16.7%	26.2%	16.8%	18.3%	24.5%
Boone	29.8	31.1	32.4	33.3	35.9	39.9	42.8	36.9%	15.6%	29.5%	18.2%	29.2%	20.0%	29.1%	20.4%	24.9%	20.8%
Box Butte	28.7	29.7	33.7	27.8	32.9	38.2	41.0	34.7%	15.2%	29.7%	12.5%	32.4%	13.4%	28.1%	14.6%	25.2%	14.6%
Boyd	30.0	32.0	38.4	41.0	40.9	43.8	46.3	33.5%	18.9%	24.2%	22.1%	27.1%	25.1%	25.0%	24.3%	21.0%	24.0%
Brown	30.1	33.8	35.0	33.8	39.0	43.1	44.7	33.6%	17.0%	28.5%	18.2%	26.8%	21.5%	24.8%	22.5%	21.3%	22.2%
Buffalo	30.8	30.1	24.2	26.2	28.6	30.0	30.9	30.1%	12.2%	26.2%	12.0%	25.7%	12.1%	25.0%	11.5%	23.3%	11.3%
Burt	32.4	34.7	38.4	38.2	38.8	42.2	43.5	31.6%	18.7%	26.2%	21.0%	26.9%	21.6%	25.7%	21.8%	23.0%	20.5%
Butler	33.3	35.2	35.6	35.2	37.0	38.8	40.4	33.6%	17.4%	28.2%	19.2%	28.0%	20.4%	27.9%	17.7%	24.7%	17.2%
Cass	33.2	30.3	29.6	30.9	33.2	36.9	37.7	34.7%	12.8%	30.3%	12.8%	28.8%	13.0%	27.9%	12.3%	25.2%	12.3%
Cedar	27.7	26.0	27.7	30.4	34.6	38.8	41.3	41.1%	14.6%	32.6%	17.4%	31.0%	18.9%	29.4%	20.0%	25.8%	19.8%
Chase	28.9	33.1	35.2	32.2	36.6	42.1	44.2	32.9%	17.0%	30.7%	16.0%	28.9%	18.7%	25.2%	21.1%	21.6%	21.0%
Cherry	27.9	28.2	31.3	32.4	36.1	39.4	40.6	34.5%	12.9%	28.2%	14.8%	28.1%	16.9%	27.0%	17.3%	24.2%	17.4%
Cheyenne	27.5	26.6	30.8	32.8	35.9	38.7	39.3	36.1%	13.0%	27.5%	15.6%	27.5%	17.9%	26.3%	17.2%	23.6%	15.9%
Clay	36.9	35.7	34.0	33.0	37.2	39.9	42.0	34.4%	16.5%	28.8%	17.7%	27.2%	19.6%	27.3%	18.0%	23.6%	17.9%
Colfax	34.8	37.4	37.1	34.0	35.2	35.0	37.2	32.1%	19.1%	28.3%	20.5%	27.7%	20.5%	28.9%	16.0%	26.9%	16.8%
Cuming	30.3	31.5	31.8	32.5	36.9	39.2	41.3	36.5%	14.8%	30.3%	17.0%	27.9%	20.3%	27.2%	20.2%	24.6%	20.3%
Custer	31.0	34.0	37.2	35.8	39.2	41.3	42.9	32.1%	17.8%	27.3%	19.6%	27.0%	22.0%	26.3%	21.1%	24.1%	20.5%
Dakota	27.6	26.1	26.0	27.5	31.2	31.4	32.1	38.7%	10.1%	32.7%	10.3%	30.3%	11.7%	30.5%	9.9%	30.3%	10.3%
Dawes	29.8	29.4	24.8	27.7	30.6	30.6	30.2	28.7%	13.3%	25.0%	14.6%	25.3%	15.7%	21.2%	14.8%	19.5%	15.3%
Dawson	28.9	30.7	31.5	30.6	36.1	34.3	35.3	34.3%	14.0%	30.1%	14.0%	27.9%	17.3%	29.2%	14.1%	28.6%	13.1%
Deuel	30.0	34.1	39.0	39.2	39.1	43.5	45.0	30.8%	17.6%	27.1%	21.5%	26.3%	22.8%	23.3%	22.9%	20.0%	21.8%
Dixon	31.3	33.4	35.2	33.0	36.8	38.7	40.6	34.3%	17.1%	29.7%	18.6%	28.2%	20.2%	27.5%	18.2%	24.6%	17.2%
Dodge	32.6	29.8	29.7	31.7	35.5	37.9	39.3	34.6%	13.1%	28.0%	15.1%	26.1%	17.3%	24.7%	17.5%	23.2%	17.4%
Douglas	31.6	28.8	26.3	28.7	31.7	33.6	34.2	36.1%	9.5%	29.1%	10.4%	26.9%	11.4%	26.6%	11.0%	26.1%	10.7%
Dundy	28.7	33.9	41.6	38.4	39.3	43.5	45.8	28.5%	19.5%	24.4%	20.7%	24.9%	23.1%	23.3%	22.4%	20.7%	21.4%
Fillmore	35.1	34.9	37.0	36.2	38.2	41.4	43.5	32.5%	18.7%	27.1%	19.9%	26.5%	21.7%	26.3%	21.3%	23.9%	21.4%
Franklin	32.6	38.2	43.5	42.4	42.5	42.8	44.6	27.4%	22.1%	24.4%	24.1%	23.4%	26.6%	24.5%	23.9%	21.6%	24.1%
Frontier	30.8	33.3	33.2	32.1	37.3	38.5	40.8	31.5%	16.0%	27.7%	17.0%	27.8%	17.7%	26.0%	16.9%	21.7%	17.7%
Furnas	33.3	36.8	42.5	41.2	42.4	43.5	45.2	28.9%	23.2%	24.2%	25.1%	23.7%	27.4%	24.1%	23.8%	21.2%	23.5%
Gage	32.5	34.7	33.5	34.9	37.2	39.9	40.6	31.1%	15.3%	25.1%	18.1%	24.4%	19.7%	24.0%	19.2%	22.1%	18.3%
Garden	29.3	32.9	38.0	41.1	41.6	45.6	48.3	31.0%	17.4%	23.5%	22.1%	23.2%	24.0%	21.8%	24.0%	17.6%	27.1%
Garfield	30.8	33.5	38.7	39.5	41.5	45.9	46.3	30.6%	20.0%	27.1%	22.6%	25.9%	24.1%	23.5%	24.8%	21.4%	23.3%
Gosper	31.2	32.3	36.7	35.5	40.7	43.4	45.4	34.9%	13.0%	27.6%	16.2%	24.4%	21.2%	23.8%	20.8%	21.1%	21.7%
Grant	29.7	30.0	27.1	30.5	35.2	39.9	44.5	39.6%	10.4%	30.4%	13.6%	29.3%	15.3%	29.2%	13.7%	20.7%	17.0%
Greeley	29.1	30.9	32.5	33.3	36.6	41.7	44.4	38.0%	15.9%	31.1%	19.4%	30.7%	20.9%	26.9%	23.2%	23.6%	23.6%
Hall	31.7	31.8	28.6	29.7	33.3	35.6	36.0	35.1%	11.9%	30.1%	12.5%	28.4%	14.2%	27.2%	14.0%	26.6%	13.6%
Hamilton	32.9	32.2	31.0	31.4	35.2	38.1	39.3	36.2%	14.0%	30.3%	14.0%	29.0%	16.1%	29.1%	15.3%	25.8%	14.6%
Harlan	31.2	36.0	40.1	39.0	41.0	44.5	46.9	31.3%	19.5%	25.3%	21.4%	24.6%	24.0%	24.2%	23.0%	20.2%	24.4%
Hayes	26.6	29.8	34.0	33.0	38.0	42.5	44.7	35.8%	12.5%	29.0%	13.1%	27.1%	18.0%	26.6%	19.9%	23.0%	21.4%
Hitchcock	28.5	33.3	37.9	33.7	37.5	43.6	45.3	32.9%	17.2%	28.1%	18.4%	28.9%	21.4%	23.8%	22.3%	20.0%	22.6%
Holt	29.1	30.9	31.1	30.4	34.5	40.5	43.3	37.4%	14.9%	31.0%	15.4%	30.2%	17.3%	27.3%	19.8%	23.8%	20.3%
Hooker	29.0	28.5	39.4	36.5	41.8	45.3	46.7	30.5%	18.5%	26.4%	19.2%	24.6%	27.7%	24.0%	26.9%	21.6%	26.4%
Howard	33.3	34.7	32.0	33.2	37.3	38.1	39.8	36.7%	14.8%	30.7%	16.6%	28.5%	18.9%	28.3%	17.1%	24.1%	17.3%
Jefferson	33.7	36.5	38.4	37.8	39.9	42.9	44.7	29.2%	18.9%	23.9%	20.6%	24.6%	23.6%	23.3%	22.7%	21.2%	22.5%
Johnson	33.1	35.8	37.2	39.4	40.5	42.4	43.2	32.2%	18.0%	25.9%	21.8%	24.5%	23.6%	24.2%	22.0%	21.4%	21.1%
Kearney	34.8	35.2	34.0	33.4	35.8	38.7	40.6	33.0%	16.1%	27.4%	16.7%	27.0%	17.5%	26.8%	16.7%	23.1%	16.3%
Keith	28.6	28.8	30.8	32.3	36.6	41.1	43.7	35.9%	12.4%	29.1%	13.6%	27.8%	16.9%	25.3%	18.4%	22.1%	19.7%
Keya Paha	28.9	31.3	32.3	33.3	38.8	41.9	44.7	34.7%	12.5%	29.6%	15.8%	26.1%	21.1%	23.8%	20.7%	22.5%	24.0%
Kimball	29.4	24.0	27.2	32.0	37.9	42.8	44.7	39.1%	8.5%	29.5%	13.9%	26.6%	19.0%	24.7%	21.0%	22.2%	22.0%
Knox	30.3	32.1	35.2	34.6	40.6	43.0	44.5	35.3%	16.5%	28.8%	19.2%	26.5%	23.8%	25.5%	23.1%	22.7%	23.1%
Lancaster	30.4	27.5	25.4	27.5	30.7	32.0	32.8	30.1%	10.0%	24.4%	10.1%	23.9%	10.9%	23.5%	10.4%	23.0%	10.3%
Lincoln	29.0	30.2	29.6	29.2	34.7	37.8	38.2	35.6%	11.4%	30.7%	11.9%	28.9%	15.2%	26.2%	15.1%	24.3%	14.9%
Logan	29.2	30.1	32.9	31.1	33.7	41.8	44.9	35.4%	13.0%	31.4%	14.8%	33.4%	15.3%	27.3%	17.6%	22.7%	18.5%
Loup	28.6	31.2	36.7	35.9	39.0	42.9	43.6	31.5%	13.0%	28.1%	16.8%	27.5%	18.7%	26.7%	19.5%	25.0%	19.6%
McPherson	27.2	30.5	35.3	37.5	36.4	40.6	41.6	33.2%	11.9%	27.2%	17.7%	29.3%	19.8%	27.6%	18.2%	22.5%	19.5%
Madison	34.3	34.4	30.8	29.4	32.2	35.0	35.4	32.7%	14.9%	27.4%	14.6%	28.5%	14.7%	26.8%	14.4%	25.5%	14.1%
Merrick	32.4	33.2	30.5	32.0	36.3	39.2	40.7	36.5%	14.3%	30.7%	15.7%	27.9%	17.8%	27.5%	17.5%	24.6%	17.4%
Morrill	27.2	30.3	34.7	32.9	37.3	39.5	41.5	33.4%	15.3%	28.9%	17.0%	28.0%	18.8%	27.2%	17.0%	24.0%	17.3%
Nance	30.6	34.9	37.5	33.6	36.3	40.1	43.2	33.5%	19.5%	29.4%	18.7%	28.7%	19.6%	27.9%	19.7%	24.1%	21.0%
Nemaha	31.8	34.9	32.1	32.9	35.0	39.4	41.4	27.8%	16.1%	24.8%	18.4%	24.5%	18.7%	23.2%	18.4%	20.8%	17.5%
Nuckolls	31.2	34.1	37.0	36.8	40.3	44.1	45.4	33.3%	18.4%	27.0%	19.8%	25.9%	23.5%	23.4%	24.4%	20.8%	23.4%
Otoe	33.3	33.5	36.4	35.9	38.2	39.5	40.4	31.7%	17.6%	27.0%	19.4%	26.2%	20.7%	26.3%	18.3%	24.1%	17.5%
Pawnee	34.8	38.7	43.2	45.0	44.0	45.9	46.9	29.2%	22.7%	23.1%	24.8%	23.2%	28.6%	22.7%	27.1%	20.0%	25.6%
Perkins	27.9	30.2	37.8	33.9	37.8	40.7	43.0	31.7%	16.0%	28.3%	17.5%	29.8%	20.5%	26.6%	19.3%	22.4%	19.4%
Phelps	32.2	32.3	33.8	33.9	36.0	39.4	41.5	32.4%	16.8%	27.0%	17.9%	27.3%	17.8%	26.5%	18.1%	24.0%	18.6%
Pierce	30.8	31.6	32.9	33.3	35.3	37.9	39.7	35.2%	15.3%	29.3%	17.1%	29.2%	19.2%	29.0%	17.2%	25.0%	16.4%
Platte	29.3	27.9	26.9	28.7	32.1	35.8	36.8	37.8%	10.8%	31.2%	12.2%	31.0%	13.3%	29.0%	13.8%	26.7%	13.1%
Polk	33.9	36.3	38.6	35.4	39.2	41.6	43.0	31.7%	19.2%	28.8%	20.0%	26.6%	23.0%	25.1%	21.4%	22.5%	20.5%
Red Willow	29.8	30.5	31.8	31.5	35.0	39.9	41.3	33.3%	14.9%	27.7%	15.5%	27.2%	17.1%	24.9%	19.0%	23.5%	18.7%
Richardson	32.8	37.1	39.9	39.0	39.7	41.4	43.4	30.1%	20.0%	24.8%	22.4%	24.9%	23.8%	25.5%	21.5%	22.3%	21.3%
Rock	29.7	31.6	35.9	31.3	36.8	43.5	47.0	33.1%	17.3%	30.0%	16.6%	28.9%	18.2%	23.0%	22.3%	18.6%	22.6%
Saline	35.9	39.0	36.9	34.1	35.6	36.4	35.8	27.5%	19.4%	24.7%	19.9%	24.9%	20.6%	25.1%	17.2%	23.8%	15.7%
Sarpy	26.9	23.3	21.9	25.3	28.7	31.5	32.1	44.0%	2.9%	35.6%	3.4%	32.2%	4.8%	30.5%	6.6%	28.7%	7.4%
Saunders	34.1	33.5	33.0	32.5	35.1	38.0	39.6	32.7%	15.7%	29.7%	15.8%	28.5%	16.0%	27.9%	15.3%	24.9%	15.2%
Scotts Bluff	26.8	27.9	27.0	30.1	35.1	38.4	39.2	34.5%	10.3%	30.2%	13.0%	27.9%	16.1%	25.9%	17.2%	24.5%	16.9%
Seward	32.0	30.1	27.0	28.5	33.1	35.7	36.1	29.5%	13.4%	26.6%	14.0%	26.6%	15.9%	24.7%	15.2%	21.6%	15.2%
Sheridan	28.7	30.2	35.2	33.6	38.2	42.0	44.1	33.7%	16.7%	28.8%	17.1%	27.9%	20.8%	25.6%	21.7%	23.3%	21.3%
Sherman	31.2	33.0	34.5	36.6	38.5	43.3	45.0	35.3%	15.6%	29.6%	20.7%	28.2%	21.3%	24.5%	23.1%	21.3%	23.6%
Sioux	27.8	29.2	32.9	33.8	38.2	41.5	44.3	35.3%	10.4%	28.1%	13.8%	26.3%	16.2%	24.3%	16.2%	18.5%	18.8%
Stanton	30.2	31.9	30.9	28.0	31.6	35.9	36.3	36.2%	13.9%	34.0%	12.2%	33.0%	12.2%	29.8%	13.5%	26.5%	12.1%
Thayer	33.7	37.2	39.9	39.1	41.3	44.1	47.1	30.9%	19.9%	25.6%	22.0%	24.7%	26.0%	24.1%	24.5%	21.3%	25.5%
Thomas	29.3	32.7	32.1	29.9	36.0	44.2	47.9	34.0%	13.5%	30.5%	12.2%	31.6%	14.8%	23.6%	20.3%	16.8%	19.5%
Thurston	26.5	28.3	27.4	29.0	29.9	29.8	28.5	38.9%	12.4%	34.1%	13.4%	35.1%	13.7%	36.8%	13.2%	35.3%	12.5%
Valley	32.7	34.8	36.2	38.2	39.7	43.5	44.8